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Navigate home

Having recently installed iOS 6, I thought I’d try the new navigation features. Ok Siri, “navigate home”. After a few seconds, the response was “I couldn’t find an address for Chris Weedall – home”.
Ok, first let’s check the basics – I’ve previously set up my home address with Siri, and this address is attached to my contact card, marked as home. Also if I go to Settings -> General -> Siri -> My Info, the correct contact card is selected.

The response from Siri “I couldn’t find an address” could mean one of two things:

There isn’t an address flagged as “home” for me – well there is one there

It can’t find my address on the map – lets test that then

When I try to navigate to my town the directions returned are to a place with the same name but in Somerset, some 230 miles away. So it can’t find my address. Lets go about this another way then:

Remove the “home” address entry from my contact card (or move it to another address slot)

Go to the Maps app, and stick a pin in the road outside my house (it needs to be in the road to resolve an address, minus a house number and full postcode)

Click on the dropped pin and select “Add to contacts”

Select “Add to existing contact” and pick my contact card

This is the important bit – go to Contacts and edit my contact card, setting the address type of this new address to “Home”

This works a treat. The only downside is that the address isn’t now a full postal address, but you could keep the full address as a second address on the contact card.